Indian actress Sridevi dies at age 54

Sridevi, one of India's most celebrated actresses, has died according to multiple reports published by Indian media outlets. Sridevi was reportedly with husband Boney Kapoor and daughter Khushi in Dubai when she passed away. Elder daughter Janhvi is in Mumbai for a film shooting. She had two daughters, Jhanvi & Khushi Kapoor.

The Padma Shri awardee who began her career as a child artist won many hearts with her acting.

Her moving performance in Sadma alongside Kamal Hassan is still considered to be incomparable to any of her other works in Bollywood. She was apparently busy with her upcoming Bollywood projects. In the 1990s, Sridevi's roles in Chandni, Lamhe, Mr India, Nagina were not just personal landmarks but the stuff of Indian film legend.

Subsequently, Sridevi established herself as one of the leading actresses of Tamil and Telugu cinema, with roles such as 16 Vayathinile (1977), Sigappu Rojakkal (1978), Varumayin Niram Sivappu (1980), Meendum Kokila (1981), Premabhishekam (1981), Moondram Pirai (1982), Aakhari Poratam (1988), Jagadeka Veerudu Atiloka Sundari (1990) and Kshana Kshanam (1991). She also became active in the television space and made an appearance on Aamir Khan's Satyameva Jayate episode where a child sexual abuse survivor spoke movingly about how her films had helped the person cope with the trauma. She took a break from Bollywood in 1997, following which she tried her hand at the small screen, but returned to the silver screen with a bang in her comeback film, the critically acclaimed English Vinglish, in 2012. At age 13, Sridevi starred in K Balachander's Moondru Mudichu (three knots, Tamil localese for the bond of marriage) where she played the wife of an aging widower and stepmother to Rajinikanth. Her last film was MOM (2017). As the news of her death broke, Twitter was soon flooded with condolences and many of her fans refused to believe the shocking news.

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